Effect of electron-withdrawing groups in conjugated bridges: molecular engineering of organic sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

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• 作者：Jie Shi ; Zhaofei Chai ; Runli Tang ; Huiyang Li ; Hongwei Han…
• 关键词：dye ; sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) ; auxiliary electron acceptor ; quinoxaline ; benzoxadiazole
• 刊名：Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：60-70
• 全文大小：1,278 KB
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• 作者单位：Jie Shi (1) (2)
  Zhaofei Chai (1)
  Runli Tang (1)
  Huiyang Li (1)
  Hongwei Han (3)
  Tianyou Peng (1)
  Qianqian Li (1)
  Zhen Li (1)
  
  1. Department of Chemistry, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Opto-Electronic Materials, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Oilcrops Lipid Chemistry and Nutrition, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China
  3. Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
  
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Electronic and Computer Engineering
  Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers
  Biomedical Engineering
  Chinese Library of Science
  
• 出版者：Higher Education Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：2095-2767

文摘

Four organic sensitizers containing quinoxaline or benzoxadiazole as an auxiliary electron acceptor in conjugated bridge were synthesized and utilized for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). It was found that the incorporation of different electron-withdrawing moieties can affect the absorption spectra, electronic properties, the interfacial interactions and then the overall conversion efficiencies significantly. Therefore, the appropriate selection of the auxiliary acceptor was important to optimize the photovoltaic performance of solar cells. Among these sensitizers, LI-44 based solar cell showed the best photovoltaic performance: a shortcircuit photocurrent density (J _sc) of 13.90 mA/cm2, an open-circuit photovoltage (V _oc) of 0.66 V, and a fill factor (FF) of 0.66, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 6.10% under standard global AM 1.5 solar light conditions.